Prairie TownRM No. 459Kinistino

RM of Kinistino

Rural municipality No. 459 · population 604

Grain elevators at Kinistino, about 1920s · Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC031237

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Weather in RM of Kinistino

1° Periods of light snow Wind W 8 km/h, gusts 28 · Humidity 90%
  1. Today 2°-3°
  2. Fri 3°-7°
  3. Sat 4°-3°
  4. Sun 5°-1°
  5. Mon 6°-3°
  6. Tue 7°-2°
  7. Wed 5°

Today: Periods of light snow. High plus 2.

Normal for today: high 2°, low -7°

  • 9 h 45 min of daylight, 3 min 55 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:51 a.m., sunset 5:36 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -3°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 16° in 1910, record low -22° in 1988

No weather alerts or drinking water advisories right now.

Forecast for the Melfort area, 39 km away, observed at Melfort at 2:00 p.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 2:19 p.m..

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Box 310
Kinistino SK S0J 1H0

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RM of Kinistino’s story

The Rural Municipality of Kinistino No. 459 became an incorporated rural municipality on December 11, 1911.

Within its boundaries sit the town of Kinistino and the village of Weldon, along with the localities of Brockington, Fort a la Corne, North Star, Pahonan and Pine Bluff. A reserve of the James Smith First Nation is also surrounded by the RM.

Today the area is home to the Kinistino District Pioneer Museum, the Fort à la Corne Provincial Forest and Fort de la Corne. The Canadian National Railway runs through the municipality, and the Weldon Ferry is part of its transportation network. The RM office is in Kinistino.

Written from Wikipedia’s article “Rural Municipality of Kinistino No. 459” (CC BY-SA 4.0), and shared under the same licence.

RM of Kinistino in photos

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Street view with Kinistino Hotel and brick bank building, about 1910
Street view with Kinistino Hotel and brick bank building, about 1910Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC029417
Horses grazing in a pasture on the Carrot River near Kinistino, about 1915
Horses grazing in a pasture on the Carrot River near Kinistino, about 1915Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC011140
Grain elevators at Kinistino, about 1920s
Grain elevators at Kinistino, about 1920sPeel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC031237
Post Office, about 1945
Post Office, about 1945Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC024325

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